THE GRAPEVINE

WHAT SOUTHERNERS ARE BUZZING ABOUT

What We’re Sipping and Savoring

House Cocktails Score a taste of the Caribbean on your own front porch with a jigger of Nashville-based Campesino rum, which is distilled in SPOTLIGHT Barbados, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. Island Outpost campesinorum.com A U.S. Virgin Islands restaurant comes to South Carolina

The food scene on Sullivan’s Island, South restaurant, The Easterly, in St. Thomas), the Carolina, is about to get a bit more tropical. new eatery’s aesthetic is just as fresh as its The Longboard, a “coastal Caribbean inspired” menu. Think craft cocktails and locally restaurant in Cruz Bay, St. John, is planning sourced seafood dishes by chef Will Fincher, to open a Lowcountry location this summer. who helmed the kitchen for more than six With thoughtful digs by Charleston-based years at The Obstinate Daughter, another interior designer Cortney Bishop (who also great Sullivan’s Island spot. Follow along on decorated the St. John original and its sister Instagram: @longboard_sullivans. New Music may be best known for the powerful twang she brings to the country music duo A Greener Cooler , but this summer, the Georgia- born songbird is Warm-Weather Essential Our favorite singing a diff erent tune. Her Texas-made cooler just got an earth- Always Like New drops friendly upgrade. Igloo’s new Ecocool on June 25 and features high- line is crafted from recycled plastics, energy takes on Broadway and their fi rst production run kept favorites both contemporary more than 116,000 pounds of yogurt (“Wait for It” from ) cups and milk jugs from being tossed and classic (“Oh, What a into landfi lls. Ecocool Collection, from Beautiful Mornin’ ” from

$25; igloocoolers.com Oklahoma!). IGLOO LAINEZ; COURTESY SHERVIN CREATIVE; TELEGRAPH KENSLIE MCGUIRE, SWAN; SARAH LEFT: TOP FROM CLOCKWISE

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